- Here we have an image from Pancake Rocks on the blowhole,…and we notice of course that the sky's blown out.…And we knew that when we were there, checking the histogram,…but this image here is my favorite of the actual blowhole.…The action of the water,…the spray looks like it's coming right at the viewer.…Really excited about this.…And then what I did is I picked an image…that I took very close in time, of just the sky,…in which the blowhole's pure black.…There's nothing there.…So let's do an exposure blend.…

I want to start with this image…and see if I can't darken it just a bit, here.…And I'm just going to try and bring it…a little bit closer to the exposure I used for the sky.…So I'm just going to darken it just a bit.…I don't want to lose any detail,…but I do want it to look very natural.…I'm going to come over to the sky,…see if I can't brighten this one just a little bit.…So I'm just kind of playing with the exposure,…trying to match them a little bit better.…I don't have much room to play.…I can turn on the J key,…

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11/17/2015

There is no off-season for landscape photography. Even winter offers unique image-making opportunities. Follow along with landscape photographer Justin Reznick as he travels to the stormy Punakaiki coast, a beach on the South Island of New Zealand well known for its Pancake Rocks. By taking advantage of breaks in the weather, Justin captures incredible photographs of the ocean waves, rock formations, and stormy skies. Along the way, he'll teach viewers how to experiment with shutter speed and long exposures, isolate subjects with a telephoto lens, take multiple bracketed exposures, and more. At the end of each chapter, he reviews images from the shoot and demos his post-processing workflow in Lightroom.